4 Apr
2012
4 Apr
'12
8:07 p.m.
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 5:19 AM, Rickey Holt <holt.e(a)comcast.net> wrote:
OK,
I am looking for dances that are from "Easy" to "Intermediate" in
difficulty
that can be used in a mixed crowd that is not predominately beginners, but
more likely predominately experienced dancers, AND that do not have a ladies
chain or a circle in them. A few more Heys would be nice too. My
collection and the old American Country Dances on line database do not seem
to have any such dances. Any suggestions?
There's hundreds of contras with hey, but no circle left or ladies chains.
Assuming you're good with "circle right", here's a list of some,
limited mostly to ones that can be found online or in Give and Take.
(With a very few exceptions of some popular dances.) Instructions can
be located with Michael Dyck's index.
There's many more floating around unpublished, or in small contra
collections, like Tom Hinds or Joseph Pimentel's books.
(Starred ones are my favorites.)
Al's Weathervane (Olson)
Almost There (Lehmann)
American Summer (Callens)
Amherst & Wooster (Weiler)
Ann Arbor Four (Olson)
The Arcadian Fling (Hemphill)
Are You 'Most Done? (Owen)
Around the Sound (Ravitz)
Aurora (Devlin)
Avenstoke Ramble (Wilson)
Balance or Bust (Nance)
A Balancing Act (Foster)
Beaming Bob Green (Coffman)
Birds and Bees (Coffman)
Boy Trouble (Harvey)
The Bus Stop (Bill Olson)
Busy as a Bee (Coffman)
Circadian Rhythms (Ackerson) (2011 RPDLW syllabus)
Coming Home (Olson)
ContraQuad (Tepfer)
Country Dance Romance (Smukler)
Daddy's Reeling (Nevitt) (2004 syllabus)
*A Dance for Dan (Bill Olson)
David Comes to Town (Bill Olson)
*A Delicate Balance (Smukler)
Double Joy (Page)
E16V1 (Olson)
Fancy Passings #3 (Nicholson)
*Flirtation Reel (Parkes)
Floorplay (Balliet)
Fly Around, My Pretty Little Miss (Wilson)
The Glorious Twelth (Cubitt)
Groovemonger's Contra (Flaherty)
Halsway Passion (Meechan)
Hands Off!!! It's Hot in Here!!! (Holland)
Harmony Hey (Lehmann)
Hay-ja Vu (Hemphill)
Here's to the Men (Hale)
Hey Rollers (Page)
Hickman's Hey (Unknown)
The Honeypot (Meechan)
Jerry Goes to Camp (Karamanski)
Lambertville Men (Olson)
Linda's Flight (Ravitz)
Lizing in Zen (Ravitz)
Look, Don't Touch (Pope)
Mad Robin Swing (Lehmann)
Making Hey (Diggle)
The Meadowlark (Heine)
The Millenium Hug (Ravitz)
Nils's Maggot (Wild) (2008 syllabus)
Of the Mills (Gallagher)
*Princeton Petronellas (Isaacs)
Racquetball Reel (Page)
Renaissance Barnes (Greenleaf)
*Renewal (Hubert)
Rhyme or Rhythm (Ravitz)
Robins Wild (Harvey)
Sailing Woman (Olsen) (2002 syllabus)
Semicentennial Reel (Sannella)
Slip and Slide (Ravitz)
Spin to Your Neighbor (Fuerst)
Starfire (Ravitz)
*String of Swings (Isaacs/Mohr)
Sunshine Meltdown (Sharon Rempert)
Sutton Swing (Hubert)
Sweet Music (Kahn)
Travelling Companion #1 (Ellis)
Two for the Road (Kitch)
Waterfall (Ravitz)
Wave Action #1 (Richardson)
Wedding Contra for Debbie and John (Ravitz)
Winter in Summerland (Spero/Hutson)
Witchy Woman (Pope)
Good luck,
-Chris Page
San Diego